Bridging Instruction

Bridging Instruction

As described in the video, bridging instruction is a way of eliciting pupils' invented strategies in a move towards more formal/correct methods. Think of a recent learning episode (or one you have planned) and determine what the best question could be used at the beginning to explicitly prevent invented strategies forming competing waves of ideas.

Teach, Do, Practise, Behave: Equality

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Teach, Do, Practise, Behave

  • What does equals mean?
  • Breaking and Fixing
  • Bridging Instruction
  • Childrens Learning (Siegler, 1996)
  • Representational Fluency in Middle School: A Classroom Study (Nathan et al., 2002)
  • The Real Story Behind Story Problems: Effects of Representations on Quantitative Reasoning (Koedinger et al., 2004)
  • Bridging Instruction
  • Teaching and Doing1
  • Learning from Examples: Instructional Principles from the Worked Examples Research (Atkinson et al., 2000)
  • Mistakes on display: Incorrect examples refine equation solving and algebraic feature knowledge (Barbieri & Booth, 2020)
  • Examples and Tutored Problems: How can Self-Explanation Make a Difference to Learning? (Najar & Mitrovic, 2011)
  • How do we practise?
  • Mathematical Fluency: the Nature of Practice and the Role of Subordination (Hewitt, 1996)
  • Developing mathematical fluency: comparing exercises and rich tasks (Foster, 2017)
  • Assessing Mathematical Proficiency: What is important? (Burkhart, 2007)
  • Practising Tasks
  • What does 'behaving' look like?
  • What makes a Rich Task? (Griffin, 2009)
  • Low attainers exhibiting higher-order mathematical thinking (Watson, 2001)
  • Behaving Tasks
  • A Learning Episode...